JuiceBox 3.0

Light, power, heat, & communication access for Disaster resilience. All powered by the sun.

COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

Shine’s third generation of JuiceBox uses proprietary hardware and software to provide unparalleled compactness, efficiency, power and weight savings for communities taken off-grid by natural disasters and individuals working to transition out of homelessness. Our Claremont, CA-based team is currently developing prototypes, working with business, nonprofit and government partners to better understand our market and the needs of our target users, and building a team of talented, young, and driven undergraduate students to research, engineer, manufacture and promote our flagship JuiceBox.

Powerful & Economical

Natural disaster relief primarily uses fuel-reliant, expensive to maintain, and difficult to transport gasoline generators to provide emergency power to impacted constiutents. JuiceBox’s lightweight, renewable maintenance-free power reduces cost and feasibility barriers for governments & nonprofits eager to protect their communities.

EASY TRANSPORT

JuiceBox fits neatly into a backpack along with other emergency supplies for easy, human-powered transportation — even after critical infrastructure failure blocks roads, collapses bridges, and damages trucks or other transportation equipment.


Designed for Stockpiles

JuiceBox is designed to be compactly stockpiled and easily deployed without the need for vehicles and infrastructure that can fail in disasters. JuiceBox fits in a backpack alongside other emergency supplies and is easily carried on foot

INtuitive & Fleet-REady

ShineNet makes solar intuitive for disaster victims in 108 languages, accelerating recovery for disaster victims. It also gives relief organizations unprecedented energy system fleet management capabilities. No internet connection required.

JuiceBox 2.0

light, Power, & Communication access for people transitioning out of homelessness. 

The Need

An increasing number of Portlanders transitioning out of homelessness live in off-grid “tiny house” villages. These communities generally lack light, electricity, water and heat.

The Product

JuiceBox 2.0 provides light and electricity, enabling houseless users to power computers and cell phones to contact emergency services, find employment, and engage in their communities.

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Solar PowerED

JuiceBox 2.0 uses one high-efficiency, high-output 100W polycrystalline solar panels from Grape Solar in Eugene, Oregon to charge its built-in 18 Ah battery. Even on the rainiest of winter days, JuiceBox is capable of providing up to 12 hours of light from its on-board LED.

Dylan Audley Installing JuiceBox

Student Created

JuiceBox 2.0 was created by Solomon Olshin and Anjali Haripriyan in 2016 while both were high school sophomores, and was developed within the Catlin Gabel Robotics Team’s InvenTeam division.

Community Manufacturing Model

Shine has produced 120 JuiceBox 2.0s since January 2017. Many of these JuiceBoxes were built by houseless Portlanders. Others have been built by employee volunteers at our corporate sponsors, including eBay, Autodesk, and others. We have also received funding from Lexus and Scholastic.